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According to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s official public schedule, the governor was to be in Essex County today with no public schedule.

An intrepid team from the Adirondack Daily Enterprise tracked Cuomo to a gas station in Saranac Lake where he was pumping gas at the Hyde Mobil Station on Lake Flower Avenue. (Photo credit to the paper’s Peter Crowley).

Aside: Why the governor was pumping his own gas into what appears for all the world to be one of the state-owned SUVs that sheppard him around is beyond me. He’s not generally allowed to go anywhere without a security detail.

The paper will be reporting on what Cuomo was doing in Saranac Lake in tomorrow’s editions. According to Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto, the governor spent the day in the Adirondacks with his family and is due back in Albany tonight for a staff meeting.

No word on what, exactly, the governor was doing in the ‘Dacks. Skiing? Sight-seeing in Lake Placid? Winter hiking? I guess we’re going to have to wait until tomorrow to find out.

UPDATE: According to DN Capitol Bureau Chief Ken Lovett, the governor’s three daughters are skiing today, but it’s unclear if their father joined them on the slopes.

Also unclear: Whether Cuomo was joined by his live-in girlfriend, Sandra Lee, who told UsMagazine.com recently that Saranac Lake and Capri, Italy are her two favorite vacation spots.

Meanwhile, back at the Capitol, the Assembly and Senate are scheduled to pass their respective one-house budgets today and convene a general conference committee (AKA the mothership) this evening.

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